Where does “wanderen” come from?

wanderen (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon *wandarōn, from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn — to waver, change, fluctuate.

Ancestry of “wanderen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxon*wandarōn—
2Proto-West Germanic*wandarōnto waver, change, fluctuate

Words derived from “wanderen”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn →Every word from Old Saxon *wandarōn →